Quotes About Industry

TV is so expensive to make and these channels aren't necessarily rolling in money, that getting anything off the ground... they can't take that many risks.

I just think we need to keep having open, honest, and encouraging conversations to ensure people are represented across all industries including our TV screens when it comes to diversity.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It's a great platform.

There are a lot of things about the TV industry that make you try to change who you are to fit into a certain mold.

I remember I would work in the South industry and Hindi TV industry too along with doing 'Char Divas Sasuche' and that was the reason I never got bored.

It's been two years since I am off television, but I am constantly being offered roles for TV projects. People from the TV industry continue to be kind to me.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Earlier, the notion was such that TV actors are overexposed and that they can't do films, but now it's not like that.

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

I expect filmmakers to look at talent and realize that the medium should open up more for TV actors too.

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

I know that I'm a quirky guy, to say the least. I don't know how easy I am to cast for a network. It hasn't been because I haven't tried. But am I dying to be on a TV show? No.

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

There used to be a period of time when you'd shoot big studio movies where you would shoot a couple of pages a day. For a TV show, you've gotta shoot seven to nine. The schedules are much more compressed.

I could sell my own TV show, but I couldn't get it made.

Before saying yes to a TV show, I was busy doing films down South.

Making a TV show is a lot of work. I actually feel a little duped on this subject. Nowhere in the stories about getting on a television show do you ever hear about how much hard work it is.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.